http://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/25/arts/what-rhymes-with-uh-plagiarism.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
What Rhymes With, uh, Plagiarism?
David Sumner is not a famous name in the world of poetry. Neither is he unknown. Like hundreds of other people, he has had reasonable success in placing work in tiny poetry reviews, most of them published at lesser campuses, and from time to time he has managed to break through to midlevel publications.
Mr. Sumner does stand out from the struggling poetry pack in one important respect, however.
He doesn't exist.
For a brief but impressive run that lasted from 1990 to late 1993, 59 poems by "David Sumner" appeared in 36 literary journals, and 12 others had been accepted for publication. That success rate becomes more understandable considering that many of the poems were lifted wholesale from the published work of other poets and simply adorned with new titles.
Mr. Sumner plagiarized the work of at least five poets (only 14 of the 59 poems have been matched with the originals so far), but he specialized in the work of Neal Bowers, a poet and teacher at Iowa State University and until recently the editor of Poet and Critic magazine. And that was his mistake.
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